I used to think making a good AI UGC ad would take hours.
Then I made this UGC ad with just a product image.
No actors.
No filming.
No complicated workflow.
Just upload the product and let Shhots AI @shhotsAI do the rest.
Pretty impressed with how real it looks.
Try Shhots AI yourself:
https://t.co/8jw3iuo1dC
Your wife should not get a job and cannot do anything worthwhile but your prayer is that your daughter should be president and you want her to dream big cos she deserves the best. You dey mad.
Graphic designer would never be replaced by AI lol
If AI could replace anything, we would have not still had content writers/strategists and copywriters exist a long time ago
Most remote workers see EMEA in a job description and just scroll past it or worse, apply without understanding what it means.
Let talk about that right now.
EMEA stands for Europe, Middle East and Africa. When a company puts EMEA in a job description they are telling you which region the role covers or which region they want you to be available for.
So if a job says "Customer Support Representative - EMEA" it means they want someone who can handle customers or operations within that time zone range. Which for Nigerians is actually fantastic news because we sit right inside the EMEA time zone naturally. You do not need to adjust your sleep schedule to work with a London or Dubai based client the way you would for a US Pacific time zone role.
Here are the other ones you will see regularly and need to understand immediately.
APAC means Asia Pacific. Australia, Japan, Singapore, India. If a role says APAC and you are in Nigeria you are looking at very early morning or late night shifts to match their business hours. Know this before you apply.
LATAM means Latin America. Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and surrounding regions. Similar time zone to the US East Coast.
NAM or AMER means North America. US and Canada. You already know what that means for your sleep sha.
WFH means Work From Home. Remote. You know this one.
EST, PST, GMT, WAT are time zones. When a job says "must be available 9AM to 5PM EST" and you are in Nigeria that is 2PM to 10PM your time. Calculate it before you accept it not after.
When you understand these terms you can filter roles intelligently. You can apply for jobs where your time zone is genuinely an advantage instead of fighting against a 7 hour difference every single day. You can speak confidently in interviews when they ask about your availability.
EMEA is your sweet spot as a Nigerian remote worker.
You can start filtering for it deliberately.
Major cheat code for life: Learn to delay your reaction. Anger, fear, and impulse will try to make you move fast. There's power in pausing. In the pause, you see clearly, you respond wisely, and you avoid decisions you’ll regret. Slow down to speed up.
Nothing dies in my hands this week.
Everything I touch finds life.
My helpers will locate me, and they will recognize me on sight.
I will live long, walk in wisdom, and prosper.
Plug your friends whenever you can. It’ll come back to you in beautiful ways.
In 2018, when I got my first remote job with a Canada based digital marketing company, my employer asked me to refer people I’m sure would be able to do the job.
So I went through my contacts and picked out five names. I told them about the opportunity and they were all interested. So I sent their names in.
All five of them got selected.
Each of us earned between $700–$1,000 monthly. Back then, that was a lot of money.
One of my friends, who was based in Italy at the time, let me use his PayPal account to receive payments, as we couldn’t receive funds directly to a Nigerian PayPal accounts. So he would convert the money to naira and send it to me.
I would then calculate and distribute everyone’s share based on their earnings.
We did this for the next two years.
The business grew. The team expanded. We brought in more people.
At one point, we had about 15 Nigerians on the company’s roster and everyone was eating well.
Over time, some people left for better opportunities. Then COVID hit, and the company downsized.
I eventually left towards the tail end of COVID.
So I went back to full-time freelancing… but getting clients wasn’t that easy.
I had to reach out to one of the guys I had referred years earlier.
At the time, he was a freelance content writer for a top US SaaS company.
He didn’t hesitate; he plugged me in immediately and I joined the team on a retainer.
Fast forward to today: I’ve transitioned into IT, but I still write for that company 3–4 times a year. I’m talking long-form articles, and the pay isn’t bad.
As of now, about seven Nigerians are writing for that same company and we all connected one another.
The moral of the story is to plug your friends whenever you can. The result will come back to you in beautiful ways.
If not, you’ll struggle to go far in life.